[Biopython] issues with NCBIXML

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Nat Echols <nathaniel.echols at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm puzzled by the behavior of the Blast XML parser.  It appears to be
> picking up all of the alignments correctly, but the
> top-level Bio.Blast.Record.Blast object that it returns appears to be
> incompletely populated.  Specifically, the attributes num_hits and
> num_sequences are set to None - but I have several dozen alignments.  Am I
> missing the point of these attributes, or doing something wrong?  It's not a
> huge issue (I can just count the alignments, I guess), but I'm a bit
> concerned that there's something wrong with my code.
>
> thanks,
> Nat

The number of alignments and descriptions only really apply
to the plain text (or HTML) BLAST output, but I guess we
could set them to the number of hits in the XML output.

Peter